Date:         Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:42:43 -0700
Reply-To:     "Pardee, Roy" <pardee.r@GHC.ORG>
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From:         "Pardee, Roy" <pardee.r@GHC.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Suggestions for SAS: Multi-threaded GUI
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> Matt,
>
> "I feel your pain". :-)  I gave up running anything
> substantial on an interactive basis a long time ago.  I use
> Textpad as my editor.  I set it up to submit SAS jobs from
> the editor in batch mode, and load the log and list files
> back into Textpad, much like you apparently use UE with Perl
> jobs.  I would suggest you do the same with SAS.
>
> I do keep an interactive SAS session open, but only to try
> out snippets of code, and to browse datasets.  If necessary,
> I can cut and paste from Textpad into the interactive SAS
> session.  There are many editors that can do the same thing
> and even more (among them UE and Xemacs with ESS).
>
> Hope this is helpful,
>
> Dan
>
> Daniel J. Nordlund
>
> Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
> Planning, Performance, and Accountability Research and Data
> Analysis Division Olympia, WA  98504-5204

Allow me to pimp my sascommunity page that shows how to set up UE for working with SAS:

http://www.sascommunity.org/wiki/Tips_for_sas_programming_with_ultraedit

or if that breaks:

http://is.gd/o3YF